"Obs langt"

gelatin silver print

estate stamp verso

With a wealth of ideas and a love of experimentation, Umbo had a decisive influence on the photography of the New Vision. He is considered the inventor of the image of the New Woman, the new image of the street, and photographic reportage par excellence. His name also stands for the youth-moving departure of the wandering birds from the Wilhelminian era to the early Bauhaus and for the inspiring media metropolis of Berlin. Umbo is at the same time the young artist who doubted himself, who thanks to the impulses of Bauhaus teacher Johannes Itten and his artist friend Paul Citroen became famous almost overnight, and yet remained an ever bohemian, an eternal seeker.
(Berlinische Galerie)